I'm not saying they get to the point where they vote republican, just the way they think as they get older and get more wealth. I dont think Ana would vote republican, but the stuff she says now I don't think she'd say in her younger years.
I think black people are more conservative especially baby boomers. Definitely the ones in the church, but they not getting to the level of voting for republicans
That claim doesn't work either, because if it were true, then the Democrats would have become more conservative in the last 30-35 years. And they've gone the opposite direction. The 1990s was when Clinton signed all the Crime Acts and anti-drug laws, are Democrats more conservative on crime or drugs now than they were then? How about racial issues? How about LGBT issues? How about socialism, did Bernie have nearly the # of stans back then that he does now and was there any equivalent to AOC and the Squad making waves? Was there even close to as much anti-corporate anger in the 1990s as there is now? Were environmental issues taken nearly as seriously? Are democrats going to support nation-building invasions like they did with Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s? Are the going to help a Republican president get votes for right-wing education policy like No Child Left Behind again?
Democrats only became more conservative in the 1980s to the mid 1990s, as the white baby boomers were pushed in that direction by libertarian and neoliberal economic propaganda and the Reagan Revolution. Some old white dems in the baby boomer generation have continued to move right in recent years, but on average Generation X has come back to the left a little after bottoming out in the 1990s, and Millennials have become significantly more left-wing than they ever were in the 1990s, 2000s, or early 2010s.
Look at this graft from 2017:
Notice that from 2004 to 2017, the # of voters with political values that became "consistently liberal" increased between 1994/2004 and 2017 in EVERY generation. The # of voters with values that were liberal at all increased from 1994/2004 to 2017 in EVERY generation. Whereas the "mostly/consistently conservative" group shrunk between 2011 and 2017 among both Millennials and Generation X, and is only barely larger than it was in 1994/2004 and still basically insignificant.
Now, that was 2017, before the bigger shift to the left that came during the 2018 election, 2020 George Floyd protests, and 2024 election. Look at how much further to the left Joe Biden has had to run compared to Hillary Clinton. Do you really think that Dems in those younger generations have been moving to the right in the last 7 years?
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